Otto Senffleben

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Memorial in Sonneborn

Otto Senffleben (born January 6, 1867 in Ingersleben , † 1936 in Eisenach ) was a Protestant theologian .

Life

Senffleben was born as the son of a long-established farming family. His father Heinrich Louis was a master bricklayer and baker. After attending school in his birthplace, he studied theology at the universities of Greifswald and Halle . After his time as a subdeacon in the castle church in Gotha , he was pastor in Sonneborn from 1895 to 1920 and in Eberstädt until 1922 .

In 1919 he founded the Dorfkirchenbund and was appointed regional pastor and church councilor. He was a co-founder of the People's Service of the Protestant Church of Thuringia and since 1921 a member of the Thuringian regional church council. He was a co-founder of the Protestant newspaper Faith and Home . In 1929 he went into retirement with great honor and died in 1936 at his place of work in Eisenach. A memorial can be found in the Sonneborn cemetery.

In Faith and Home , in 1929, he published the series From my village home in seven parts .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ingersleben. In: literaturland-thueringen.de. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Official Journal 2/2014 of the rural community of Nesse-Apfelstädt (PDF), accessed on May 8, 2017
  3. ↑ Ingersleben Local History Museum
personal data
SURNAME Senffleben, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingersleben
DATE OF DEATH 1936
Place of death Eisenach